And if you do not stop it for all those who can stop it for the own, those whose lives weekends did you see a star message from palestine is on the back for the un as an emergency session is held to discuss is available on gums unfinished roles are held for the family members of allergies. They are a correspondent, wild dogs killed in his randy attacks from central gaza on wednesday. The 24th is a continuing that bombardment of civilian areas in gauze, thousands of palestinians. Ive now been killed by his randy as strikes 45 percent of residential units in garza had been partially or completely destroyed with these images, cellphone units in southern goes away as well. But in the residential building, damaging the surrounding area. The United Nations is wanting to know where in gaza is safe. The Foreign Ministers of 9 our countries have condemned to force displacement unconnect the punishment of palestinians in kansas. The joint statements, it is wales, right to self defense did not ju
Crew members. And the medical conditions. Once we get the information we will bring it to you as soon as possible. Until then that is the latest live from leonardtown. Im q mccray. Back to you. Nancy thank you. The helicopters are the main stay of the short range transportation for the army. Modified versions of the aircraft are in use across branches of the military. The Senior Investigative reporter Lisa Fletcher joining us from the live desk with more on the crash history of the blackhawk. Lisa the blackhawk is the Army Front Line utility helicopter that is used for air assaults and evacuation. Its a workhorse and considered dependable. Especially in extreme conditions like sand, heat and bad weather. Given that 4,000 of these have been built and rotated in and out of the Service Since 1979, there are bound to be accidents. At least 60 soldiers were killed in crashes in blackhawk s in noncombat the worst was when two slided in kentucky. 17 conditionals were killed. In 2015, 11 died
Q the crew members names will not be released until the families know what happened. They are working on that now. We will keep you focused. That is the latest from leonardtown. Back to you. Jonathan that looks like golfers got to help the crew get out of the helicopter. The blackhawk helicopter is a workforce for the army. 4,000 unites have been built over the years. I entered service in 1979. The base model is 6 million. 60 soldiers have been killed in the crashes dating back 35 years. The most recent crash was four months ago. The crash did injure four soldiers. There are crews at leonard town. Nancy this come michelle this comes after work continues from a fighter jet that went down in a training mission. The pilot ejected safely and was not hurt. There is more breaking news. This is out of montgomery county. Flames are out at recycling business. There were several vehicles and a pile of scrap caught on fire. It was tough to put out. They used the foam to put the fire out. Larry no
That crash landing this afternoon. This is the breton Bay Golf Course. Were being kept at a very far distance from the actual scene where the investigation is taking place, but this gives you an idea. We have photos, we do have video of the scene. This is a photo from baynet. Com, a reporter was able to get close to the wreckage when it happened. Also our chopper 4 was able to get some images of the scene from a distance. This is a black hawk helicopter that made a hard landing just before 2 00 this afternoon. We understand that there were three people on board this helicopter. One person was airlifted to the hospital. We dont have any update at this point on their conditions. If we can go ahead and show you the scene here as im speaking a little bit. If you look off in the distance, theres a helicopter thats continuing to circle around this area. Were not sure why, but were seeing other helicopters come through the area. This chopper in crashed this afternoon is based at fort belvoir
He saw the chopper in distress and saw it go down. Watched the helicopter come by, sitting very low, and my brother made a comment, look how low it is, and then i said, oh, my god, its going sideways, and then it started to go backwards, and i said its going down and it went down. What were you thinking at that moment . We just took off over there, just wasnt good. Both my brothers, they went right up to the scene, i stayed back, i was leery with all the stuff that was on the ground and what not and worried about explosions. Reporter so, again, you heard from him that there was some concern among people that there could be some danger there. Again, we have not yet heard from the military on that. We are expecting a briefing from the military at some point this afternoon. Theres a media staging area. As soon as we have that, well bring you that information, stay tuned to nbc washington. Com and the news4 app. Back to you. Thank you, darcy. The uh60 helicopter, one of the Scott Macfarlan